Microsoft Outage Disrupts Outlook, Azure, Teams and Defender XDR; Users Also Report Gmail Issues
On January 22, 2026, a widespread outage hit Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access core services including Outlook email, Microsoft 365 apps, Teams collaboration tools, Microsoft Defender security, Purview governance tools and Azure cloud resources. Reports of issues peaked on outage tracker Downdetector with more than 15,000 incidents logged […]









